Deleted the thread attached to this because tbh that's probably the preamble to a book I want to write eventually, specifically about where interactive data visualisation as a trade skill sits in 2026. If anyone knows a publisher who'd be interested, please drop me a line.

My top advice for aspiring data journalists? Never try to improve your tech stack. Ever.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but please don't sign me up to beta test prayer apps; thank you.

Once again, I am asking the powers that be to have a basic grasp of how the Internet and actual online safety works. It isn't VPNs which are putting people at risk... Signed, a journalist who has been covering cybersecurity for well over a decade.

Mount a tablet on the front with a visualisation showing stock levels of each bottle That could be a bar cart bar chart

It's important to have friends who tell you that you look amazing and you're glowing even if you feel like shit and didn't bother with makeup and are wearing a NiN t-shirt from high school 💚

Weird that 40,000 of you follow me, I'll never understand why.

This year has been a decade

Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

"The composition of the judiciary makes it even more dangerous when certain voices are denied a hearing." goodlaw.social/wpfz

Ugh, why do I constantly make the mistake of reading columnists who always have bad takes?

I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

Nevermind my partner wants to hang out and watch Instagram videos next to me so it's not conducive to streaming

Getting Airbnb's ESlint config to work in 2025 is a nightmare

Oh hell yeah, they're running Beachhead again! www.nomanssky.com/2025/11/holi... Going to start on that tonight, anyone want to join me?

setting my Rude filter to SHOW. setting my Unruly filter to WARN. setting my Vulgar filter to HIDE. setting my Churlish filter to SHOW BADGE. setting my Impudent filter to TSK STERNLY. setting my Callow filter to FROWN. setting my Naughty filter to... hmmm... DEPLOY OPERA GLASSES FOR FURTIVE PEEPING

10/10, no notes

(Oasis voice) oondra

All of these are valid pronunciations and no I won't be taking questions

My house parties are like: "So how do you know Aendra?" "You mean, Ahndrah" "No I mean Ayndrah, she told me that's how it's pronounced" "Wait but she told me it's pronounced Ahndrah" Some third person across the room: "I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS OYNDRAH"

Phenomenal investigative work and visual journalism from Sky News news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Hello darkness my old friend

Is there, like, an opinionated all-in-one build tool for creating a React 19-based component library in 2025 that doesn't require me to fight with things like specifying react/react-dom as externals and such?

Our latest Newsletter just went out, and if you're not signed up yet, you can read it here: northskysocial.com/posts/norths... We cover a first draft of our Community Guidelines, as well as our communications policy as a cooperative, and a progress update on alpha testing migrations.

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

Today, we're taking our first step into the moderation tools we've been wanting to build for Bridgy Fed for a while now. The reason we're launching this small iteration first is that: (1) it's recently become more urgent for our community, and (2) we want to discuss our ideas publicly. Some... 1/

Looks like X is juicing web visit numbers by opening a browser WebView in the background whether the user visits the link or not. They've re-invented pop-under fraud (allegedly). news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580...

we are 13 subs away from our goal. 13!! that's so doable. lets goooooo the-flytrap.ghost.io/chomp

The Women's Budget Groups calculated how many children would be lifted above the poverty line if the two-child limit was scrapped.

If you as a reporter or tech ethicist can’t handle 1,000 people on a social network choosing to not listen to you — not negating or screaming, just opting out, which is what a block does — you should take a minute and reflect on what you are doing professionally and what you demand from others.

Despite being one of the most milquetoast posters on the platform I'm on hundreds of moderation lists and blocked by nearly 5000 people. Not once has this impacted my life in any way whatsoever.

Legendary to see Blacksky represented at the IETF (internet engineering task force) They’re the architects of the modern internet who designed the standards of how computers talk to each other TY @torrho.blacksky.team for representing our team as atproto works through the standardization process

Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...

Got tired of reading the news and getting mad. Feeding America backs 200+ food banks around the country and I've seeded with $500 for now. I'll match up to another $500 myself. Pass the hat, RTs graciously appreciated, etc.

How could I have not known Korean fried chicken is the future of artificial intelligence?

The last article in The Gender Clinic Files is now out! The Gender Services Monitor is available from tge article, and my website will be updatted later today. Huge thank you to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series, which finishes off with a Q^A next week.

Happy 1 year anniversary to that time my partner and I overheard someone at Sainsburys talking about their friend who uses WKD as a mixer

NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

The best feeling in the world is finishing a project and closing all the 60+ browser tabs with documentation/data/GitHub issues/meeting notes/etc. that had been accumulating the last several weeks

Great to work with @aendra.com @amyborrett.ft.com @jonathanvincent.bsky.social on this important new dataset of deprivation in England

I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...

This is beautiful

I used my NordVPN subscription on rare occasions before the OSA; now I have it on pretty much constantly. Well done, British government!

Incredible work, everyone! Over 6,500 letters sent, which means (on average) over 10 letters per MP! If you haven’t written in and still want to, you can find @transactualuk.bsky.social’s easy-peasy tool here: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

*sobs gently in "but I don't want to troubleshoot React dependencies today"*

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. goodlaw.social/ncfw

This is excellent. @tangled.org continues to be one of the single most impactful projects on ATProto, it's really worth checking out if you haven't yet!